Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum
by etr-strike on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:44PM
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Sure, maybe including uncle blocks can help secure the chain. It's not without cost, however: now you're forever persisting valueless blobs of data as part of your blockchain.
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Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum
by DennisP on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:05PM
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It's just an extra block header every few blocks, which is a minuscule amount of data compared to the transaction records. And it's not actually valueless since the uncles are part of the block selection algorithm and therefore contribute to security.